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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658194

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658194

NM69SE 13 65812 90596

Traigh House is situated on the coast S of the Glenancross, E of the B 8008 public road. Fromerly the property of Miss Astley-Nicolson.

Special Operations Executive (SOE) and United States OSS agents were trained at this house during the Second World War.

The house is visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/UK/Scot 178, frames 4274-4275, flown 7 Ocotber 1946), but there is no evidence on the photographs of military occupation.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2008; S Allan 2007

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